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Corporate Governance and Bank Insolvency Risk : International Evidence
Anginer, Deniz - 2017
This paper finds that shareholder-friendly corporate governance is positively associated with bank insolvency risk, as proxied by the Z-score and the Merton's distance to default measure, for an international sample of banks over the 2004-08 period. Banks are special in that "good" corporate...
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How Does Corporate Governance Affect Bank Capitalization Strategies?
Anginer, Deniz - 2017
This paper examines how corporate governance and executive compensation affected bank capitalization strategies for an international sample of banks in 2003-2011. "Good" corporate governance, which favors shareholder interests, is found to give rise to lower bank capitalization. Boards of...
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Governance Matters VI : Governance Indicators for 1996-2006
Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - 2007
This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project, covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: Voice and Accountability, Political Stability and Absence of Violence, Government...
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Determinants of Social Distancing and Economic Activity During COVID-19 : A Global View
Maloney, William F. - 2020
The paper uses Google mobility data to identify the determinants of social distancing during the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. The findings for the United States indicate that much of the decrease in mobility is voluntary, driven by the number of COVID-19 cases and proxying for greater awareness of...
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Jobs' Amenability to Working from Home : Evidence from Skills Surveys for 53 Countries
Hatayama, Maho - 2020
The spread of COVID-19 and implementation of "social distancing" policies around the world have raised the question of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834268
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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
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Appraising Cross-National Income Inequality Databases : An Introduction
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2017
the Caribbean. Two are based on secondary sources: All the Ginis and the World Income Inequality Database; and one is … generated entirely through multiple-imputation methods: the Standardized World Income Inequality Database. Although there is …
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Comparing Cash and Voucher Transfers in a Humanitarian Context : Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Aker, Jenny C. - 2017
Despite recent calls in support of cash transfers, there is little rigorous evidence of the relative impacts of cash versus in-kind transfers, especially in humanitarian contexts, where a majority of such programs take place. This paper uses data from a randomized experiment in the Democratic...
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Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling Around the World
Montenegro, Claudio E. - 2017
Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts to synthesize the empirical results to ascertain patterns. This paper presents comparable estimates, as well as a database, that...
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Growth, Inequality, and Social Welfare : Cross-Country Evidence
Dollar, David - 2017
Social welfare functions that assign weights to individuals based on their income levels can be used to document the relative importance of growth and inequality changes for changes in social welfare. In a large panel of industrial and developing countries over the past 40 years, most of the...
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